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  • so, from what little I know, and I’m absolutely not even remotely a car person:

    car electrical systems run at really high voltage with much harder systems than you’d find inside a normal computer, because it’s an extremely noisy environment that has to survive lots of fucked up shocks

    and AFAIK the standards are only kinda-sorta standards. interfacing with them is very very hard. im sure this gets easier once you get TO the network, but flashing that shit and changing what it does with the network seems like a pretty tall order. maybe try swapping out something near the cellular chip itself? that’s probably a pretty standardized part, right?




  • to clarify: shannon entropy not thermodynamic entropy, which is kind of the opposite?

    i hate language sometimes.

    I think it will succeed at buying them time to build their doom bunkers without us doing a revolution, and then retreat into them.

    they’ll die in there. closed systems don’t work and these people cannot cope with, much less manage, ecology, but we’ll die first. no shortcuts for those lazy good-for-nothing assholes who would rather just skip over the part where the living envy the dead and maybe miss out on human extinction. can’t half ass these things.






  • so you’re saying it’s a niche toy you can get if you really want one, but nobody’s pushing that shit on you, and if you never want to talk about one again in your life, you can probably do that?

    I would like if large language models were in this position. I don’t think you understand the degree to which our productive capacity and infrastructure are committed to this technology. it’s a lot. basically all the cutting edge computer chips being made are specialist chips for processing large (whatever) models, including the engineering to back it. that means everything else is bumped down a generation or five.

    then there’s the amount of electricity being put towards these things-we are in a climate disaster, we do not have green energy, and these things are drawing in the high GW/low TW of energy.

    water is also a lot more precarious than a lot of people want to think about. these things are using lots and lots of good drinkable water to cool those specialist chips, then just being throws out, because I assume it’s cheaper than cooling the hot water back down.

    if these things didn’t ruin the internet, and were just something you ran on the beefy desktop you otherwise use for games, I wouldn’t mind, but that’s not where we are.